Facebook Clones Friendfeed’s “Like” Feature
Facebook seems to get more similar to FriendFeed every day. The latest, the addition of an “I like this” link on News Feed items, is one of the more significant challenges to the lifestreaming service yet, as it essentially duplicates a major component of what makes FriendFeed tick - a simple, one-click display of indicating your liking of a specific item in a stream of activities and a view of all of the other people that have also liked it.
Much like FriendFeed, you can already import activities from third-party services like Google Reader, YouTube, and Flickr into your Facebook News Feed. And, you can already comment on those and other items too. With the addition of “I like this,” Facebook would seem to have all of the core components of FriendFeed nailed, save a few dozen niche services and some of the options that more advanced users enjoy like Rooms.
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